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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: UK gets nul points (from public) yet again
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:53:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On 19/05/2025 21:02, Blueshirt wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <slrn102md71.1q5.andyl@azaal.plus.com>,
>> Andy Leighton  <andyl@azaal.plus.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 19 May 2025 12:23:45 +0100, 
>> > The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Doctor Who was never about racism, 
>> > 
>> > Yeah the Daleks were never about racism!  Sure!  I mean they
>> > were obviously a thinly veiled metaphor for the Nazis even
>> > in the early '60s. 
>> 
>> Xenophobia yes.
>
>The thing is, the Daleks were not proper Nazi's anyway were
>they? After all, wasn't their main enemy a race of people with
>blond hair and blue eyes? They were also led by a cripple in a
>wheelchair... and before he came along, the Dalek leader was
>usually black. That's some master race!  :-)
>
>If anything the Daleks were the precursors of parts of Doctor
>Who fandom... they hate because they know no different. So they
>end up just hating everything and wanting to destroy for no
>other reason than it's what they do... and have always done.
>
>> And then there is Talons of Weng-Chiang.
>
>One of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever made.
>
>Just because it's a Doctor Who story that wouldn't be made now
>doesn't take away from that fact.

It wouldn't be made in quite the way it was then. But with a few tweaks (and
 with appropriate cultural references, and exposing the racism of the time
 rather than casually accepting it) it would be perfectly acceptable.


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There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.